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The Google Chrome logo is the official logo for the web browser by Google. In this tutorial, I will teach you how you can recreate the logo using CorelDRAW. I am using CorelDRAW X7. You can still follow with your version of CorelDRAW.
Step One
Create a new document on CorelDRAW by using CTRL + N. Leave the Resolution at 300. You can choose RGB for primary color mode if your logo is for web display or CYMK if you want to print.
Step Two
Select the Ellipse tool from the toolbox. Draw an ellipse by dragging on the document with the ellipse tool selected. Hold CTRL key while creating to constrain the proportion of the circle
Use the Pick tool to select the ellipse. Go to the property panel and choose 8 as the height and width. Press Enter key after to apply this new setting
Step Three.
With the Ellipse selected, use the shortcut CTRL + C, and CTRL + V to copy and paste the ellipse respectively. Change the width and height of this second circle to 3.5 each and hit Enter key. You can add color to the shapes to distinguish them
Step Four
Select the two circles using CTRL + A on the keyboard. Go to the Shaping options in CorelDRAW.
They include
- Weld: It will combine your shapes into a single object with uniform fill or outline
- Trim: Cut out the portion of an object using the shape of another object
- Intersect: It will create an object from where two objects intersect
- Simplify: To trim overlapping areas among objects
- Front minus back: To remove the object at the back from the front
- Back minus front: To remove the object at the front from the back
- Create boundary: Create a new object that surrounds the selected object
We will use Trim from the options later
Step Five
Select the smaller ellipse and go to the property panel. Change the height and width to 3.0. Hit Enter
Step Six
Go to the Freehand tool (shortcut key is F5). Left click to reveal other tools within this options. Choose the Two Point line tool.
Drag with this tool on the working space to draw a line. Hold CTRL key while drawing to create a perfect circle.
Click on the line with your mouse. It will add a point of rotation to your line.
Hold the left mouse button, then drag the circle icon from the line to the center of the smallest blue circle
Step Seven
With the line selected, go to Object > Transformations > Rotate (ALT + F8). A dialog box will appear. There are several options like Position, Scale and mirror, Rotate, Size. Choose Rotate. Go to the angle of rotation and input 120. Click Apply.
Two copies of the lines with the angles will be created
Step Eight
Use the Pick tool to select the biggest circle. Also, add the three lines to the selection by holding the SHIFT key while selecting the shapes. After selecting, go to the shaping options in the property panel and choose Trim. It will divide the big circle into three parts
Select the three lines and hit the Delete key on your keyboard to delete
Step Nine
Select the biggest circle with the Pick tool. Go to Object > Break Curves Apart (CTRL + K). It will break the circle into three parts using the lines as reference.
With the Pick tool, select each portion and add color. To add color, go to the color palette and choose the colors to fill each individual portion of the shape
Step Ten
After adding colors to the individual parts, select any portion of the green, yellow or red fill. We will repeat this operation for all the portions. Go to the Interactive fill tool and select it. Drag across the object to give it a subtle gradient
Go to the smallest circle with blue color fill, select it. Choose the Interactive fill tool and drag across the circle to add a gradient to it
Remove the stroke from the shape by selecting all of them using the Pick tool and then use the small handle here to show options. Choose outline color and select none
Fill the between the blue circle and the red, yellow and green shapes. To do this, draw an ellipse of height and width 5, and place at the center of the shape. Add a white color to it.
Move the shape to the back of our logo, To do this, select the circle you created, go to Object > Order > To Back of Page
Step Eleven
Group the whole shapes by selecting all of them using CTRL + A and click CTRL + G to group them.
Final Step
Go to the Text tool and select it. Choose Arial font and type "Google". Use the Pick tool to move it below the logo. Resize it to fit the logo size
Go to Object > Break Artistic Text Apart ( CTRL + K). This will break our text into each letter. You can use the Pick tool to select the individual letters and change the color
We will add the colors to each letter. Then we use CTRL + A to group the whole logo and text and use CTRL + G to group all of them.
You can save your artwork using CTRL + S. Feel free to drop your comments or questions below
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